Patricia (Gypsy Caravan Rollin’)
I met her in Autumn
Though I’ve seen her before
In one kind of life or another
I believe she’s my twin
Though we don’t know it by now
And she still judges a book by its cover
So please have a look
As I’m standing before you
And I’m begging of you for an audition
In dreams I’ve heard voices
Of many-a-gal
But they all whispered one name – Patricia
I fell for her quickly
Till winter grew on
Then I thought that she might not be willing
But one look in those eyes
Those reflections of sky
With the diamond-stars shining bright and no ceilings
So don’t turn away
As I’m trying to know you
I believe in my heart’s intuition
And it tells me since Autumn, keeps telling me now
There’s just one gal for you – Patricia
Like a stoned Gypsy wanderer
I follow her roads
And I follow some light that I hope guides me
And the gods of the old times
At the gates of Babylon
Tell me, son of ours, follow her, cause now you’re blinded
So don’t lay your head
Where the killings are done
On your soul winged from the start of your wishes
Just walk out of this and leave all that’s his
Come here where’s your place – Patricia
And the caravan stood still
As the bard he did play
On his strings for the same unchanging goddess
Through ages of stars and through faces so different
Just one and only spirit wanders
And it crosses those borders
So many-a-time
And it howls in the wind, ruins cities
Like a blossoming thunder, and tombstones not plundered
And stories of old do repeat – Patricia
Copyright © 2006 by A.J. Kaufmann. All rights reserved.
2 songs @ Asphodel Madness
http://asphodelmadness.blogspot.com/2010/02/diana-and-her-kind.html
“Diana and Her Kind”, a love song
and
http://asphodelmadness.blogspot.com/2010/02/germans-cant-dance-poles-cant-sing.html
“Germans Can’t Dance, Poles Can’t Sing”, a songwriter’s satire.
Thank you Ross, thank you my Friends!
Callused Hands #13
Yep, I’m up there at the 13th floor with
Phil Lane
Michael Aaron Casares
Joanna M. Weston
and
Mike Florian
sharing two song lyrics:
“Vultures Sing for Berlin” and “My Rebirth (American Wings)”
Here’s the link:
http://callusedhands.blogspot.com/2010/01/issue-13.html
Thank you Ivan, thank you my Friends!
Still Within
Well I mixed my blood with wine
To rejoice to prophet’s maze
And we danced on knives and fire
Till we got out of this place
And the mess was getting clearer
And the jury soon stood in
Said c’mon we’re not joking
We will keep you still within
There’s that girl who resurrected
Wearing snakes around her neck
And some portraits of her brothers
Who were obviously ashamed
There’s that man with a gothic wardrobe
He’s feeling very thin
And that girl she said now fellow
I will keep you still within
And the days were getting shorter
From colliding on the road
With her drawings on salvation
And assorted SM toys
With a liquid voice of silver
Her words came gently in
To my ear made of marble
Whispering keep me still within
And the man who drives the truck
Carrying loads of nicotine
Got a handful of deliverance
For the people jumping in
Thru the border down the sunset
Long the gently shining wind
He keeps rolling 18 wheels
Singing keep me still within
Soon we’ll all be joined by union
That we still cannot avoid
And the crazy undertaker
He would play the final chord
With the birches bending lowly
Over tombstones’ lovely stream
Above rows of pretty crosses
Whispering keep us still within
And behind the wall of sadness
She drew portraits of her child
Which was lost in a raging battle
In a time before the past
There’s a tear that rises slowly
And upon her breast does spin
To arpeggios so familiar
Saying keep me still within
Well I got myself a piano
For to play my evening songs
To a woman who’s been created
By a deeper kind of love
And she sits there on the sofa
In a pose suggesting sin
And she murmurs words of knowledge
I will keep you still within
Copyright © 2005 by A.J. Kaufmann. All rights reserved.
2 short poems
THE MEEK
Little hope without truth
there be thought, he said
whole as eye, as mind
held hostage to nebulae whip
can’t ride the world
on Huxley crowns
sleeping things, the matter
paper
remembers nothing
all-protecting ego
cracks for the light
too late
absolute unity
already judges
the meek
GLORY
world writes love
knows men
has things
is agreed
we manifest catastrophe
sincere, devoted, filled with fear
too much to see in the sky
perimeter
glaring heads of cocaine angels
the idea, the temptation
the sacred, the true
houses you dwell
have none
are none
contrasted to all your
glory
Copyright © 2009 by A.J. Kaufmann. All rights reserved.
some CDs, LPs and Vagabond Vacancy
here are twelve CDs / LPs I’ll be listening to REAL often in 2010:
Brave New World – Impressions On Reading Aldous Huxley
Code III – Planet Of Man
Dom – Edge of Time
Eloy – Visionary (LP)
Embryo – Embryo’s Reise
GAA – Auf der Bahn zum Uranus
Galactic Explorers – Epitaph For Venus
Grobschnitt – Ballermann (LP)
Guru Guru Sun Band – Hey Du! (LP)
Kollektiv – Kollektiv
Krokodil – An Invisible World Revealed
Magna Carta – Lord of the Ages (LP)
oh, and “Vagabond Vacancy” has been unleashed today at KSE…
check it out:
http://kendrasteinereditions.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/a-j-kaufmann-vagabond-vacancy-kse-154-out-now/
“Afterwards” @ Shelflife Magazine
One of my recent poems, “Afterwards”, made it into Issue #008 of Shelflife Magazine
http://shelflifemagazine.com/
There are some great articles in this issue, and an interview with Molly Gaudry!
Thanks for all your support! It’s a great way to start this year.
Eviscerator Heaven
One of the best international poetry zines (since 2008):
http://evisceratorheaven.blogspot.com/
entering 2010 with new hopes, ideas and horizons.
counting on both our old, precious friends and new poets – the honest, unpublished voices of the underground…
submit and be read. the guidelines, the poetry etc. can be found
at magazine’s blogspot as well as on myspace (there’s also a list of the people
we published… quite impressive…)
http://myspace.com/evisceratorheaven
“three-eyed men are not complaining
they can yo-yo where they will” (Tommy Hall)
3 poems @ Carcinogenic Poetry
Here is the direct link to “White Rainbow Magic”, “Janitor Sun” and “Basquiat’s Head”:
http://carcinogenicpoetry.blogspot.com/2009/12/aj-kaufmann-three-poems.html
Here is the mag:
http://carcinogenicpoetry.blogspot.com/
Kevin Reid, Howie Good, Michael Lee Johnson and more…
thanks Michael, thanks fellow Poets!
Callused Hands #11
One of my recent song lyrics, “Lines”, made it into Callused Hands.
Here’s the link to issue #11:
http://callusedhands.blogspot.com/2009/11/issue-11.html
There’s also Ross Vassilev, Kenneth P. Gurney, Doug Mathewson and more…
Check it out! It’s “Ordinary literature for ordinary people”.
“Here at Callused Hands we don’t care who you are, where you’ve been or what you’ve accomplished. All we care about is the work you’ve created. We are interested in poetry and flash fiction that ordinary people would read.”
